The Many Faces of the Gravel-Voiced Fierstein
“Fierstein’s drama is New Wave in its expression of his personal viewpoints and experiences. It is expressionistic in its frequent depiction of experience in a way that distorts reality in order to present psychological truths. It is existential in that it emphasizes the individual’s freedom of choice and the distortion of society’s role in its seeking to inhibit the choice of so many of its constituents” (Rollyson, 1047).